Thursday, October 7, 2010
3:00-5:30pm
Francis Deng
Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide
Benny Widyono
Former Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Cambodia
Paul Robeson Gallery*
Robeson Campus Center
350 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Rutgers University, Newark
Dr. Francis Deng took up the position of Special Adviser to the
Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide on August 1, 2007. He has
served in a number of other official capacities, including being the
Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons
from 1992-2004. Mr. Deng holds an LL.B from Khartoum University and an LL.M
and a J.S.D. from Yale University and has authored and edited over 30 books
in the fields of law, conflict resolution, internal displacement, human
rights, anthropology, folklore, history and politics and has also written
two novels on the crisis of national identity in the Sudan.
Dr. Benny Widyono, an Indonesian national, has an MA and PhD in Economics
and served as a United Nations civil servant for 34 years in Bangkok,
Santiago, New York, and Cambodia, 1963 to 1997. In Cambodia he served two
terms, first during 1992-93 with the United Nations Transitional Authority
in Cambodia, and secondly as the former UN Secretary-General’s Political
Representative from 1994-1997. His memoirs of his Cambodia years, Dancing
in the Shadows: Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in
Cambodia was published in 2008. He is currently professor of economics at
the University of Connecticut in Stamford.
***This event is held as part of CGCHR’s new Program on Environment,
Sustainable Development, and Peace-building and Fall 2010 Speaker Series on
Humanitarianism and co-sponsored by the DOCUMENTATION CENTER OF CAMBODIA
(for more information on DC-Cam, please visit: www.dccam.org).***
***For directions to the Paul Robeson Art Gallery, which is located on the
first floor of the Robeson Campus Center, please see:
http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/maps/***
***For more information on the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict
Resolution, and Human Rights and its initiatives, please see the attached
poster and visit: http://cghr.newark.rutgers.edu/ ***
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Searching for the Truth.
MEMORY & JUSTICE
“...a society cannot know itself if it does not have an accurate memory of its own history.”
Youk Chhang, Director
Documentation Center of Cambodia
66 Sihanouk Blvd.,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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About Me
- Duong Dara
- Dara Duong was born in 1971 in Battambang province, Cambodia. His life changed forever at age four, when the Khmer Rouge took over the country in 1975. During the regime that controlled Cambodia from 1975-1979, Dara’s father, grandparents, uncle and aunt were executed, along with almost 3 million other Cambodians. Dara’s mother managed to keep him and his brothers and sisters together and survive the years of the Khmer Rouge regime. However, when the Vietnamese liberated Cambodia, she did not want to live under Communist rule. She fled with her family to a refugee camp on the Cambodian-Thai border, where they lived for more than ten years. Since arriving in the United States, Dara’s goal has been to educate people about the rich Cambodian culture that the Khmer Rouge tried to destroy and about the genocide, so that the world will not stand by and allow such atrocities to occur again. Toward that end, he has created the Cambodian Cultural Museum and Killing Fields Memorial, which began in his garage and is now in White Center, Washington. Dara’s story is one of survival against enormous odds, one of perseverance, one of courage and hope.
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